Cambodia’s premier to visit military-led Myanmar next month

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen will pay an official visit early next month to military-ruled Myanmar, seeking to patch up the generals’ battered relationship with Southeast Asia’s regional bloc of nations, a spokesperson for the Cambodian leader said Tuesday.

Hun Sen’s planned two-day visit would be the first by a head of government to Myanmar since its army seized power in February, ousting the elected administration of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The military leadership is shunned by many Western governments for the takeover and its consequent brutal repression of opposition to its rule. About 1,300 civilians have been killed by the security forces according to a detailed tally kept by the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners.

In full: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cambodias-premier-to-visit-military-led-myanmar-next-month/2021/12/07/18e648d8-5736-11ec-8396-5552bef55c3c_story.html

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